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How to use rift in a sentence

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The most important discussion of volcanic activity focuses on the Owens Valley, which is in fact an active rift valley.
A day later, he reiterated his decision to leave the Yankees and went into detail about his rift with Steinbrenner.
The intensifying political rift has created new pressure on the domestic economy, which is still recovering from the 1997 crisis.
As Peter becomes more immersed in his dilemma, it creates a rift between him and the important people in his life.
Charles attempted to exploit the rift between army and Parliament and redoubled his efforts to persuade the Scots to assist him.
That purge is wounding enough interests and egos to explain the current rift in the party, whatever else might be hidden in its depths.
To have created this rift between himself and his beloved daughter was almost more than he could bear.
This portrait caused a temporary rift with Tennyson, who wrongly took it to be aimed at him.
Needless to say, the rift could deal a serious blow to the nation's economy unless both sides reach a compromise as early as possible.
It is especially poignant that such a rift should occur in the year the event celebrates its golden jubilee.
Reasonable ledges, however, continue along the narrow rift to where the shaft widens out.
After the rift was mended, as a mark of reconciliation it was decided to revive and modernize the festival.
But the man at the center of the storm sits calmly in his office just a few doors down from the president's, playing down reports of a rift.
The rhythmic angularity of the recontextualized rift imparts a temporary sense of disorientation that subverts the song's forward momentum.
We will hear again the lead trumpeter's two-note rift telling his musicians it's time to celebrate.
Venus has a complex surface, with plains, mountains, volcanoes, ridges, rift valleys, and a few impact craters.
At this time, a deep rift developed between the Frisians in West-Friesland and the counts of Holland.
For a while I even entertained the notion that all the people who disappear each year simply fall through a rift in space to another dimension.
She triggered a massive boardroom rift when she refused to quit until fellow directors agreed to board changes.
She waved her hand yet again and opened a purplish rift in the air that glowed with uncertainty.
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And yet his experience told him 205 that there must be some rift, some hiatus in the scheme.
The rift in the intimacy between her soulmate and herself was apparent to all.
And then, because he could not shout and because he could not loosen himself, there came a rift in his madness.
Dan's bewildered mind recalled the fact that orris Head was a rift of red sand and soft sandstone.
A rift in the morning mists which enshroud the valley displays the mountain summit bathed in sunshine.
The first rift in the lute was caused by the deposition of Emir Faisal respecting the desires of the Arab population.
It seemed to him it was all-white, flaxy sheets of linen, or sifted snow a-falling that he saw there through a rift in the mist.
Far below, bathed in sunshine, stretching away to misty purple horizons, lie the broad expanses of the rift valley.
They believed the range might yet show a rift at this end which their wagons could traverse.
We realize that some undecidability hangs permanently on her shoulders, when Majaj depicts an irremovable rift in her identity.
The first rift in the cloud was due to the good offices of Hasbrouck.
As far as the eye can reach is a sea of green tree tops, with occasionally a deep rift where there is a chasm.
Slowly, and with much pain, he clambered to the bottom of the rift and stood there.
To-day, however, there was a rift in these dark clouds of consequence.
The rift was gradually widening, and the forest on either side thinned.
There are also many up in the rift valley and doubtless in other sections.
Suddenly the moon burst through a rift in the clouds and, himself in the shadow of a group of great oaks, the horseman saw the footman clearly, in a patch of white light.
The narrow canyon turned and twisted this way and that, and the rift was so small that they were able to touch both walls at the same time by stretching out their arms.
The heavens opened, and across the blue rift it hung in a glory of celestial fire, while from behind and above the clouds came a warbling as of innumerable larks.
The first is the summit eruption within Halema'uma'u Crater, and the second lava flow is coming from the Pu'u'O'o vent in the volcano's remote east rift zone.
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